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Re: Yuri receives hypocrite of the week award (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)
In <57smda$bf7@agate.berkeley.edu> atanu@are.Berkeley.EDU (Atanu Dey)
writes:
>
>jw (jwas@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
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>: Birthrates in the Third World
>: are dropping precipitously.
>
>: Insufficient population growth is quickly
>: becoming a problem; nations are changing
>: their policies already towards encouraging
>: birth; but this can hardly be sufficient.
>
>: What *should* be done to enable population
>: growth again? This is a life-and-death issue
>: for the species, let alone economy.
>
>< the above is an edited version of what jw wrote >
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> I was not aware that the internet has grown so much in the last
> few years - evidently it is possible to access the internet from
> places other than the planet earth. How else could jw be on the
> usenet since he is posting from some extraterrestrial location.
I am sorry to tell you that you are
uninformed on the subject on which you are
posting. Below are statistics... for the planet Earth.
Year Population
Growth
rate
1970 2.07
1975 1.76
1980 1.71
1985 1.68
1990 1.58
1995 1.41
2000 (projected) 1.28
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